PAYETTE recognizes the importance of supporting our greater community through connection and engagement. Now in its fourth year, our annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service program seeks to connect our practice to the greater community by supporting a variety of efforts to make a positive impact through design excellence.
On the Day of Service, PAYETTE donates the time of approximately one-third of the staff for one workday, a value of approximately $35,000, to community focused initiatives. Leading up to the Day of Service, stakeholders from selected proposals will work with the PAYETTE staff in a collaborative design process tailored to their organization’s mission. The PAYETTE design team will then iterate through ideas and generate design solutions during a day-long charette. The final deliverable is returned to the Community Partner at the end of January. This exchange of knowledge benefits both PAYETTE and the community partners by constructing a deeper understanding of our city through thoughtful conversations, in-depth explorations, and tangible deliverables completed by design professionals.
When
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 17, 2022
Participation will be in person or remote/hybrid, as determined by project teams.
How
Proposals received by November 18, 2021 will be reviewed and four to six projects will be selected by the Day of Service organizers. Each project will then be designated a team from the PAYETTE staff. Each team will have a project lead responsible for working with the community partners to coordinate scope definition, identify deliverables, and follow up after the Day of Service. Submission forms and details can be found here.
Following the Day of Service, the team will provide the community partners with the identified deliverables. The project team and community partners will also be asked to participate in a follow-up survey to evaluate the experience and impact of the day.
Important Dates
2021
October 14: Solicit Project Proposals
November 18: Project Proposals Due
November 30: Notify Selected Community Partners
First week of December: First Project Meeting
2022
First week of January: Second Project Meeting
January 17: Day of Service
January 18-31: PAYETTE Volunteers Complete Final Deliverables
February 4: Final Presentations *
February 11: Project Evaluation by Community Partner Due
* Subject to change – date will be established with all community partners in January.
Related Links:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service – PAYETTE
MLK Day of Service 2021 Recap – PAYETTE
Day of Service: East Somerville Main Streets Cultural Asset Map – PAYETTE
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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